Cake-cutter.



E. STUMPF. CAKE CUTTER.

APPLIOATION FILED MAYL19Q5.

PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

No. 825,775. PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

B. STUMPF.

CAKE CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED M1314. 1.005.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2,.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10,1906.

Application filed May 4, 1905. Serial No. 258,831.

To aIZZ whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, EDWARD STUMPF, a citizen of the United States,residing at 254 Bowers street, Jersey City, in the county of Hudson andState of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements inCake-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cake-cutters, and has for itsobject to provide a cal eoutting device which will simultaneously cutout a plurality of sections or figures of various shapes from a sheet ofdough in such manner as to leave no intervening or waste portions ofdough between the sections or figures, thereby reducing wastage to theminimum.

The preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which" Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvedcake-cutter, illustrating the operation of the same in cutting out aplurality of figures from a sheet of dough and Fig. 2- is across-section through the cutter. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectionthrough the sleeve, the body or core of the cutter being shown inelevation. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the sleeve. Fig. 5 isa similar view of the body or core.

Referrin now more particularly to the drawings, 5'18 numeral 1designates the body or core of the cutter, which is in the form of aroller provided at its ends with handles 2 to adapt it to be rolled overa sheet of dough. Surrounding the body is a sleeve 3, secured thereto bypermanent or detachable fastenings 3, which may consist of ordinaryscrews, as shown.

The sleeve 3, which forms the operatingsurface of the cutter, isprovided upon its outer surface or periphery with cutting ribs orflanges 4. These are arranged in the form of an endless or annularirregularly-filamented web (simulating a spiders web) extendingcontinuously around the surface of the sleeve. The filaments orconnecting elements of this web, all of which are cutting ribs orsurfaces, form a series of figures which vary in shape as desired. Inthe present instance I have shown the filaments, ribs, or flangesproperly shaped and relativel arranged to form or simulate the shapes ofthe heads or bodies of various birds and animals but they maybe arrangedto produce other figures or characters. It will be observed that theribsor walls, which cooperate to form any certain figure, partially orwholly form the sides, walls, or adjacent portions of the contiguousfigures or figure. For example, the ribs 5, 6, and 7, which, inconnection with the rib '8, form the figure of a hen or chicken, are soshaped as to also form the sides or adjacent portions of contiguous fiures, producing the representation of a dOgSiBfl'd, a sea-lion, and apigeon, as will appear more clearly from the representation of theshapes of cakes cut out by the action of the cutter from the sheet ofdough 9, (shown in Fig. 1 while the ribs 6, 10, 11, and 12, forming thedogs-head cutter, in turn form the sides or adjacent portions of othercontiguous figures in the Web. Hence the flanges or filaments of theportions of the figures between the boundary filaments forming theintermediate walls of adjacent figures are shaped to simultaneouslyproduce different characteristic portions of contiguous figures. Theroller may therefore be said to be provided with a series or group ofcutters so associated that the forming elements of any one cutter formone or more of the contiguous sides or elements of one or more adjacentcutters.

The cutter is rolled over the sheet of dough from which the cakes are tobe out after the manner of an ordinary rolling-pin, the ribs 4 acting toout out a group or series of cakes in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1,the cakes or divided sections of dough conforming in shape orconfiguration with the series or groups of cutters of the cutting-roll.Owing to the construction and arrangement of. these cutters the adjacentedges of the cut-out sections of dough will meet or abut, leaving nointervening or waste dough between them. Hence the necessity of removingsmall intervening portions of dough is avoided and the amount of doughnot out into form for cakes reduced to the minimum.

If desired, the fastenings 3 may detachably connect the sleeve 3 withthe body 1, as shown, in order that a series of sleeves bearincutting-surfaces for producing groups of cakes bearing the forms ofbirds, animals, figures, or characters of any type and variousgeometrical objects may be interchangeably used in connection with asingle body or roll.

As shown, the body or core 1 is preferably formed between its ends withan annular recess 13, leaving the ends intact to provide shoulders 14 tosupport the sleeve. This recess is designed to produce between the core2 i orhi and sleeve an air space or chamber 15. Formed in the sleeve areair-holes 16, one or more for each cutter, which communicate with saidair-space. By this construction air is permitted to escape from betweenthe sleeve and dough when the cutter is rolled over the dough to preventthe dough from lumping, thereby enabling absolutelyfiat figures to becut.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is As a new andimproved article of manufacture, a cake-cutting roller provided with acutting-surface composed of cutting-ribs arranged to form anirregularly-filamented web, the filaments of the web being extended invariously-curved and sinuous lines to pro- EDWARD STUMPF.

signature Witnesses:

W. D. GREGORY, FRED J. STUHR.

